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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 2: The Background of Kant's Thought.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did "Critique of Judgment" deal with?
(a) Aesthetics.
(b) Ethics.
(c) Religion.
(d) Logic.

2. Which of the following did Hume deny?
(a) The existence of ethics.
(b) The existence of the world.
(c) The existence of the self.
(d) The existence of logic.

3. What philosophical school did Hume belong to?
(a) Irrationalism.
(b) Empiricism.
(c) Extremism.
(d) Rationalism.

4. What did Descartes argue was the first and most certain piece of knowledge?
(a) One is a human being.
(b) One is a thinking self.
(c) One is an intelligent self.
(d) One has an identity.

5. When did Kant die?
(a) 1809.
(b) 1800.
(c) 1810.
(d) 1804.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Kant become after attending school?

2. What type of truth is one that is known before any experience?

3. Where was David Hume from?

4. According to Kant, why was he reserved?

5. Which of the following truths is considered to be more substantive?

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